The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-09-29

Thirty.seven thousand three hun.
dred and eight Immigrants came to this
country during August past, against 49,:
3G6 in August, 1886. Germany furnished
the largest number-7,991. England and
Wales sent 1862, Ireland G,1G7, Sweden
and Norway 1928, Russia 2,05S, Scotland
1902 and Italy 1,157.
A white woman, twenty years of age
named Annie Harris, created somewhat
of sensation near Augusta, Ga, on Sun
day last by joining Spirit Creek (colored)
Baptist Church. She was baptized in
Buffers Greek by negro preacher and is
now living with negro family. She has
no near relatives in that section, and Of
course is not now recognized by her for.
mer acquaintances.
James A. Stewart, of Wichita, Kan.
sas, was on Thursday sentenced to seven.
teen years and four months in the county
Jail, and fine of $20,S00, with the costs of
prosecution, for violation ofthe prohibition
law. He was clerk in West End drug
store, and plead guilty to an indictment
containing 2,OS0 counts. The punish.
ment imposed upon Stewart is the heav-
lest ever given in the State for violation
of the liquor traffic.
On Thursday, Joe Hadden, who is
employed at the saw mill of NJ. O. Carter
in Bates Township, had his leg cut off by
the saw. Hadden was employed in bear
ing off lumber and in passing by the saw,
slipped and fell on it. His thigh was cut
completely through just above the knee.
Drs. Goodlett and West attended the in
jured man and at last accounts he was in
favorable condition.-GreenyiYe Neaus.
Professor Baldwin went up in a
balloon from the Onondaga county fair
grounds, Syracuse, N. Y, yesterday, in
the presence of 30, 900 persons, and when
at an altitude of a mile jumped from the
air ship. Seven minutes after ascending
he landed safely about three miles from
the starting point. His parachute oscil-
lated frightfully, and this evening he
said that another experience of the same
kind would drive him out of the business.
He received $1,000 for performing the
feat.
While the Rev. DR. Fl. W. Kuhns,
formerly pastor of the Newberry Luther.
an Church, was missionary in the West
about twenty-five years ago, he invested
about $1,000 in real estate in Omaha,
Neb., then town of 900 inhabitants.
The town has grown to be city of 100,.
600 people, and DR. Kuhn's investment
has increased in value as rapidly as the
growth of the city, and his property is
now worth considerable amount. he
has resigned the pastorship of the Luth.
eran Church at Westminster, Md, and
will remove to Omaha about the middle
of October. He will continue in the
ministry. The friends of DR.. Kuhns in
Newberry are glad to hear ofhis good for.
tune.
Senator Riddleberger will be master
of the next Senate and he is now in
Washington boasting of how he will get
even with some of his Republican asso.
ciates for the unmerciful snubbipg that
they have been giving him for the past
two or three years. He has especial
grievances against Senators Edmunds,
Hoar and Sherman. The Senate next
winter will stand thirty. nine Republicans,
including Mr. Riddleberger, and thirty.
seven Democrats. 1t will thus be seen
that if Mr. Riddleberger votes with the
Democrats he can tie any question com.
ing before the Senate. This privilege
Mr.. Riddleberger says he will use with so
much frequency as to leave his Republi.
can associates in a state of nervous
expectancy regarding his actions.
= The Chesterfield Advertiser tells of q
terrible mishap which befell Mrs. knight,
the wife of farmer who lives about Eve
miles from Catarrh, in that county.
One day last week, while they were
grinding molasses cane in an old.fashion-
ed cane mill, Mrs. Knight got her hand
between the rollers, and before the horse
could be stopped her arm was crushed to
a jelly to near the shoulder, and had to
be amputated as near the shoulder az
possible. When Mrs. Knight got her
hand fastened in the mill she screamed
and frightened the horse, which caused
him to go faster and made him harder to
stop, crushing her arm more than ordi.
narily would have been done.